UPCOMING:

14 Feb. - 14 Sept., 2025 @ Chiostro del Bramante, Rome

"FLOWERS. Art from the Renaissance to Artificial Intelligence "

Featuring: Forest Flux/Waldwandel, Augmented Reality wall-sized livestream.

The exhibition "Flowers Forever," curated by Franziska Stöhr and Roger Diederen for the Kunsthalle Munich, now travels to Rome in collaboration with the curator Suzanne Landau. It will feature Waldwandel/Forest Flux as a large, wall-sized AR livestream projection!

20 - 23 February, 2025 @  ART KARLSRUHE
With Yvonne Hohner Contemporary, Karlsruhe, Germany

Plastocene Reef, Tamiko Thiel, 2025.
Augmented reality enhanced wall installation.




Plastocene Reef turns your environment into a plastic garbage coral reef - a reminder of how our addiction to plastics has filled all life on Earth with plastic. Only 9% of plastics can be recycled at all, and much of it is sent to countries with poor waste management, and ends up in our oceans. Plastic waste is endangering already stressed coral reefs - and in Greece divers discovered a "coral reef" entirely made of plastic.

28 Feb. – 25 May, 2025 @ KUNSTHALLE VIENNA

• Opening 27 Feb, 7pm - free and open to all!
  
• Symposium 28 Feb, 9am-6pm. Afterwards: "informal get-together" with artists.
  

"Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991" surveys the history of digital art from a feminist perspective, focusing on women who worked with computers as a tool or subject and artists who worked in an inherently computational way. With my 67 years, I am the second youngest in the exhibit!

The exhibit premiered at MUDAM Luxembourg, and has now followed curator Michelle Cotton as she takes over the directorship of the Kunsthalle Vienna!



Featuring the sketches and photos I did as lead product designer on the first prototype of the Connection Machines CM-1/CM-2. For more on the machines, the first commercial AI supercomputers, see my CM website.

ENDING SOON:

Ending 24 February @ Pera Museum, Istanbul

Vera Plastica
Generative AR installation, Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2024
Commissioned by BROICH Digital Art Museum via DAM Projects Berlin

In "Searching for Vera Molnar," with works by generative art pioneer Vera Molnar and homages by internationally acclaimed artists. Curated by Richard Castelli and Zsófia Máté, with generous support from BROICH Digital Art Museum and Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur.




Vera Plastica is a generative augmented reality (AR) installation inspired by Vera Molnar's 2D generative grid compositions, with each grid element an algorithmic variation in form and color. We extend her process into the 3rd and 4th dimensions of space and time, creating a dialog between a 2D, top down view, shown on a horizontal monitor, and a 3D spatial, perspective view of the entire animated AR installation, shown on a large wall monitor and in visitors' own smartphones. Our basic unit is also 3D: a (virtual) plastic bottle, symbolizing the plastic waste we are dumping into our oceans. The artwork reveals how viewpoint shapes our perception: the colorful circles on the 2D monitor are seen in 3D to be „sprouts“ of a huge „plastokelp forest“ expanding out from the horizontal monitor to engulf all visitors in the galley space.

ONGOING:

EXTENDED UNTIL May 2025, at the Paulskirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Revolution and Return, by Tamiko Thiel and /p
Interactive AR installation, 2023

In "DEMO-" AR exhibit, from wava.ar and Netzwerk Paulkirche (until 2024)




Silver coins of the German states, carrying the profiles of their respective German monarchs and symbols of their personal power, fall from the sky. With a touch you can transform them into the founding constitutional documents of the first unified German nation-state, which forced them to give up control of their realms in 1848.

But what happens when gold ducats of the powerful Prussian King and Austrian Emperor begin to rain down from above?

NOTES: On the first, failed attempt at democracy in Germany, in 1848.

Official City of Munich Art in Public Space:

#JulietToo
AR installation, Tamiko Thiel, 2022
Sited @ the Juliet Capulet sculpture in Marienplatz

Commissioned for the ARORA / #MakeUsVisible / denkFEmale Munich AR virtual monuments exhibit, 2022. All artworks are visible around the world as well - follow links on website.



Created by sculptor Nereo Constantini to honor the tragic, 13 year old heroine of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", the sculpture was donated to Munich in 1974 by its Partner City Verona, Italy. In the wake of #MeToo there has been much discussion of the tourist practice of rubbing (and licking) the patina off of Juliet's right breast "to bring luck".

To contribute to the discussion, #JulietToo surrounds the Juliet sculpture with her body positive avatars as amazon and as Viking shield maiden, warrior women who bared their breasts in battle as a sign of strength, rather than submission.

RECENT AWARDS:

SIGGRAPH 2024, 28 July – 1 August in Denver, USA

I will receive the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art! I am still wobbly-kneed at being named to this illustrious group, with so many true s/heros of mine! SIGGRAPH was so important for the beginning of my career as a media artist, in the early days when few art venues would dare to show VR artworks.

AWE XR Hall of Fame

I am honored to be part of the first cohort inducted into the newly formed XR Hall of Fame, including many of my s/heros and friends! Unfortunately I can't attend the AWE conferences this year due to prior committments elsewhere, I would have so loved to celebrate this together with you all! :-(

CAI Magazine's Top 20 Most Famous Digital Artists

According to the ranking algorithm on artfacts.net, I am #10 on this list! Read their description of how they came up with the rankings. Grateful that I lived to see the words "famous" and "digital" and "artists" in the same sentence in art magazines! :-)